Faith Filled Family Magazine September 2016 | Page 101

sun up to sun down.Everyone around you says you are gonna burn out if you are not careful but you don’t listen. You go year after year and then one day you wake up in the hospital with a heart attack and no one there to see you. You wonder what happened to all your friends but never realize that you pushed them away years ago.Maybe, you are an underachiever because of all the abuse you taken as a child. So many bad things happen so you figure why try because things never work out for you anyways.You do the least amount of work just to get by. You never go above and beyond on anything. You may even party every weekend because you feel that fun is where your happiness is since you had such a destructive childhood. You are doing everything you can to destroy your life without even knowing it, all because you believe your life is not worth anything. 3 Life Baggage: This is baggage everyone gets. It’s just that life happens. Yes we have good times too but there are just as many bad it anymore. Now you even start doing the hurting in relationships becaus e you feel that you will get them before they get you. Each time something bad happens in a relationship, you use that as a reason to become more cold and hard. Your heart has become so hardened that no one can break through. 2 Parental Baggage: There is no such thing as a perfect parent. We all learn and make so many mistakes as we are raising kids but you may have been abandoned or had parents that just didn’t care. Maybe they beat you or maybe they were just too hard on you and expected perfection even though there is no such thing. High expectations can cause you to see everything as that. You have been pushed all your life that when you get in the real world, you don’t know how to shut that off. You spend your time overachieving because that is all you know. You get up and work from